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Illustration of Night Sky, asian female below a golden moon, surrounded by flowers & swirls

“Whichever story you believe, my mother, Chang’e, became immortal. As did I.”

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

October 19, 2021 by NTE 1 Comment

A child of the Moon Goddess, and an immortal herself,  Xingyin grows up on the moon, with just her mother & their family servant/long time companion. For the most part, the three of them are happy, if isolated. Xingyin senses a grief in her mother that she can’t quite explain, and within herself she feels a growing sense to reach out … for something more. She can’t label it, and her mother has warned her against reaching for it, but the pull towards that other […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Also look at this cover, beautiful cover art, cbr13bingo, chinese culture, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, debut author, debut novel, dragons, legends, moon goddess, mythic, myths, NetGalley, Sue Lynn Tan

NTE's CBR13 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Also look at this cover, beautiful cover art, cbr13bingo, chinese culture, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, debut author, debut novel, dragons, legends, moon goddess, mythic, myths, NetGalley, Sue Lynn Tan ·
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Potential, buried under a few layers of meh

December 28, 2016 by Bothari43 8 Comments

The friend who recommended this sold it as a ‘scary book.’ It was not scary. Or else I am awesomely brave. Yeah, I’m sure that’s it. Sweeney, Angelica, and Oliver are freshmen at a college called St. John the Divine. Grey’s Anatomy-style crushes crop up immediately, with our heroine Sweeney in love with Angelica and Oliver, and Angelica and Oliver in love with each other, but also happy to flirt with Sweeney. Things get weird pretty fast when Sweeney sees an angel in her dorm […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Elizabeth Hand, moon goddess, secret societies

Bothari43's CBR8 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Elizabeth Hand, moon goddess, secret societies ·
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